Tag Archives: mount desert island
Summit at macro level looks like the moon
Even in paradise
One moment, and it contains war, youth, and marriage
This too shall pass?
I say to myself “This too shall pass” as a means of mentally surviving life’s battles. It doesn’t always provide ultimate comfort, but it helps. The flip-side of this philosophy, that wonderful things/people/places/experiences are also temporary, is unsettling my summer. I find myself melancholy in the middle of a great experience, through understanding fully its […]
Cormorants are not ninja loons.
Surely feels like camping
I sleep with the windows open. My blankets and pillows are damp with humidity and spastic deluges of rain pass through the yard. I can hear wet leaves shake off their water as the wind shakes them. The sun punches through the cloud cover, and everything steams in the light. As I rest, the sights […]
Bus full of superheroes visits downtown Bar Harbor
Seasonal workers start showing exhaustion
A murder of crows are camping at the end of the driveway. I search the ditches for trash or a carcass, but I can’t find what they’re after. Falcons drift over the roadway, and the Island Explorer buses carry more bicycles than I thought. Couples nap under trees in Agamont Park, while toddlers shriek at […]